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Exploring Gypsiness

Power, Exchange and Interdependence in a Transylvanian Village

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Romania has a larger Gypsy population than most other countries but little is known about the relationship between this group and the non-Gypsy Romanians around them. This book focuses on a group of Rom Gypsies living in a village in Transylvania and explores their social life and cosmology. Because Rom Gypsies are dependent on and define themselves in relation to the surrounding non-Gypsy ... Read more

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Movement and Connectivity

Configurations of Belonging

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Through a series of case studies from Southern and Eastern Africa, Oceania, and Europe, Movement and Connectivity: Configurations of Belonging explores the analytical usefulness of the concept of «mobility» for anthropological thought and theorization.The book scrutinizes mobility through long-term ethnographies that encompass life histories of individual persons, cyclical household developments, ... Read more

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Through a series of case studies from Southern and Eastern Africa, Oceania, and Europe, Movement and Connectivity: Configurations of Belonging explores the analytical usefulness of the concept of «mobility» for anthropological thought and theorization.The book scrutinizes mobility through long-term ethnographies that encompass life histories of individual persons, cyclical household developments,
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Against Identity

The Wisdom of Escaping the Self

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‘Deeply interesting … a superb critique of contemporary self-obsession’ Steven Poole, Guardian'Engrossing … bracing … incendiary and timely’ Stuart Jeffries, Daily TelegraphA philosopher explains why the search for identity is meaningless, and how we should escape the selfModern life encourages us to pursue the perfect identity. Whether we aspire to become the best lawyer or charity worker, life ... Read more

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All under Heaven

The Tianxia System for a Possible World Order

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In this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang, one of China’s most distinguished intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China’s story and also develops a Chinese worldview for the future. Over the past few decades, the question W**here did China come from? has absorbed the thoughts of many of China's best historians. Zhao, keenly aware of the persistent and
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Lies That Bind

Chinese Truth, Other Truths

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The People's Bard

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Chinese Cosmopolitanism

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These groundbreaking essays use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transform the definition and conceptualization of the field of modern Chinese studies itself. The wide range of topics addressed by this international group of scholars includes twentieth-century literature produced in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China; ... Read more

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